port questions (why do I find myself fudging symlinks to make stuff work?)

[Kris Kennaway]

On Mon, Mar 29, 2004 at 09:21:34PM -0800, paul beard wrote:
> [ please cc me as I am not on the list]
> 
> I have been trying to upgrade cups to 1.1.20 and have been running into 
> some problems with libraries not being found (specifically jpeg.9 and 
> tiff.4). After a few different iterations of pkg_add, portupgrade, 
> portinstall, and accompanying pkg_delete, pkg_deinstall, make install, 
> etc., I finally tried symlinking the .so files to the numbered versions 
> that don't seem to exist and all seems to be well.
> 
>  ln -s /usr/local/lib/libjpeg.a /usr/local/lib/libjpeg.so.9
>  ln -s /usr/local/lib/libtiff.a /usr/local/lib/libtiff.so.4
> 
> pkgdb doesn't seem to have any problems (I have run it enough times 
> today), cvsup has done its magic a couple of times.
> 
> I thought portinstall/upgrade -rR would fix any out-of-date ports and 
> make everything happy? What am I doing wrong to make this libraries not 
> get installed?

No idea, you'd have to post some details.

Kris
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